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Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Officially announced on December 11, 2010, the game was released March 6, 2012 and marks the final chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy of video games, completing the story of Commander Shepard.

Mass Effect 3 will follow from the events of the Mass Effect 2 DLC expansion Arrival and follows Commander Shepard's mission to save the galaxy from the Reapers by rallying civilizations of the galaxy together, while also having to deal with Cerberus, who have decided to turn against him/her.

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GoatmonYou Are An ExperienceMake Sure You're a Good ExperienceRegistered Userregular

I never realized just how very much I love Anderson. Not until he died saying he was proud of me. I just started a new game of ME3, and couldn't help but bawl like a little child, seeing Anderson alive again and remembering his "You did good, child. I'm proud of you." Considering how little, very little time is actually spent with Anderson, it's pretty amazing to me the level of affection I have.

I mean damn, I care way more about his death than Miranda's or Jack's... and I liked Jack and had some actual personal conversations with her.

I never realized just how very much I love Anderson. Not until he died saying he was proud of me. I just started a new game of ME3, and couldn't help but bawl like a little child, seeing Anderson alive again and remembering his "You did good, child. I'm proud of you."

I never realized just how very much I love Anderson. Not until he died saying he was proud of me. I just started a new game of ME3, and couldn't help but bawl like a little child, seeing Anderson alive again and remembering his "You did good, child. I'm proud of you." Considering how little, very little time is actually spent with Anderson, it's pretty amazing to me the level of affection I have.

On a 'not ending' note, I think they screwed up the pacing of the game. Here's how it worked in my head:

You are preparing for reapers.

Earth is your base.

You are trying to get alliances made, knowing the reapers are coming.

The turning point is reapers invading earth, your readiness clearly not enough, and and it ends with you finishing the macguffin search.

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Ranking the games purely on "overall game pacing and interconnectivity" seems to go

ME1
ME2
ME3

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On a 'not ending' note, I think they screwed up the pacing of the game. Here's how it worked in my head:

You are preparing for reapers.

Earth is your base.

You are trying to get alliances made, knowing the reapers are coming.

The turning point is reapers invading earth, your readiness clearly not enough, and and it ends with you finishing the macguffin search.

I think that would've worked but I kind of like how Earth gets taken right at the start

from the very first mission onward, every minute you're wasting on these missions is another thousand people dead

The reapers are already hitting other places so that's already true.

It's just that the whole "making alliances" is a huge distraction from the 'save Earth' goal because those alliances are self contained conflicts that needed to be resolved eventually with, or without, the reaper invasion. During the alliance building missions, I wasn't thinking "This will save the galaxy!" I was thinking about the resolution of that story, nothing else.

The whole macguffin thing is 100% about saving earth. Sure, introduce it early so it doesn't come out of left field, but having earth be invaded later would give new impedus to getting shit done. Urgency. The fact that Earth is under siege the entire game in fact stretches the realm of disbelief, since these are full capital class Reaper ships and they should only really be dealing with the last cockroaches after the months it took to get everyone on board.

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there really did not need to be any more buildup to the invasion, the last two games were all about that

the intro established just how crazy powerful they actually are, and that tone is carried through the whole game

Yes, the buildup of the last two games that I played years apart. It's not about establishing power. It's about coherency of plot and establishing urgency. Earth is invaded stage one, act one of ME3. It's the first thing you see before you have control of your character.

I think that was a huge misstep. That urgency is forgotten about with the amazing storytelling of Tuchanka and what follows.

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I'm varying up my squad choices a lot more in this one. Haven't brought Ashley or Vega along often, since I kind of...do what they do better than they do, but I've mixed up the rest of them pretty well

never really felt anything for anderson
he was just kinda a guy
just kinda a keith david that apparently I was supposed to think was really cool even though he never did anything

HEY

Spoiler:

He cold cocked Udina. If you choose the right councilor at t he end of ME1 he belittles Udina and makes him feel like a two year old. Anderson is a god damned Hero in my book

Oh Prothean spoilers

Spoiler:

Is the assumption we're supposed to make that most ancient civiliazations ( ours included) were uplifted ( to the extent they could) by the various survivng Protheans in order to try and get a tech leap on the reapers and the Asari screwed the Varren?

never really felt anything for anderson
he was just kinda a guy
just kinda a keith david that apparently I was supposed to think was really cool even though he never did anything

HEY

Spoiler:

He cold cocked Udina. If you choose the right councilor at t he end of ME1 he belittles Udina and makes him feel like a two year old. Anderson is a god damned Hero in my book

Oh Prothean spoilers

Spoiler:

Is the assumption we're supposed to make that most ancient civiliazations ( ours included) were uplifted ( to the extent they could) by the various survivng Protheans in order to try and get a tech leap on the reapers and the Asari screwed the Varren?

Spoiler:

I think the assumption is that the Protheans were trying to figure out which races would be ready to stand against the Reapers in the next cycle, and which ones needed a little help to get there.

The asari only screwed up because they thought it was a good idea to withhold valuable Prothean tech from the other Council races.

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GoatmonYou Are An ExperienceMake Sure You're a Good ExperienceRegistered Userregular

Is the assumption we're supposed to make that most ancient civiliazations ( ours included) were uplifted ( to the extent they could) by the various survivng Protheans in order to try and get a tech leap on the reapers and the Asari screwed the Varren?

I keep reading this, but I cannot make any sense out of what you're trying to say here.